Separable fastener



Patented July 1, 1930 UNETED STATES LOUIS E. GODDU, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUS ETTS, ,ASSIGNOIR TO UNITED-CARR MASSACHUSETTS SEPARABLE FASTENER Application filed October 30, 1928. Serial No. 316,077.

My invention aims to provide improvements in separable fasteners and relates particularly to improvements in a slidable socket and in the attachment of a stud to a support.

In the drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of an installation showing one use of my improved fastener;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Fig. 3 is an under side plan of the socket member;

Fig. 4: is a side elevation of the socket memher; a

Fig. 5 is a top plan of the socket;

Fig. 6 is a section of the socket taken on the line 66 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 7 is a plan of the stud showing the embossed annular ring on the base.

Referring to my invention, as illustrated in the drawings, I have shown a separable snap fastener which is particularly, though 25 not exclusively, adapted for use on gloves,

overshoes and other articles where at least one of the fastener elements is carried by a strap and adjustable relative thereto. In the drawings the socket A is shown slidably attached to a strap 1 and the stud B is secured in fixed relation to its carrying medium 2.

The slidable socket A is pressed from a I single piece of metal and comprises a plate portion 3 from which is pressed a tubular boss portion 4 having its free end bent inwardly within the boss to provide a rounded neck-engaging wall 5. The boss portion 4; and neck-engaging wall 5 are divided by a number of slits 6 which extend a substantial distance int-o the plate portion 3 thereby providing a number of yieldable fingers 7. Each finger is adapted to bend along a straight line passing through the plate portion between the ends of two of the slits 6, thereby to increase the resiliency of the fingers so that they will not become set over a long period of use. If the slits terminate in the boss portion the fingers are relatively stiff and are very likely to become set after they have been expanded 50 a few times. The neck-engaging jaw portions, provided at the ends of the fingers 7 by the wall 5,:prese'nt smooth surfaces for contact with the head 8 ofthe stud when the socket is being engaged therewith and disengaged therefrom; V

Atopposite sides of the boss portion 1 I have provided, in the plate portion'3, strapreceiving'slots 9 (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) through which a strap may move to permit adjustment of the socket.

The stud installationincludes thestud B, carrying medium 2 and attaching rivet 11, as shown in Fig. 2. The stud B hasa base 12, the head 8 and neck-13. The rivet has a base 14 and a tubular rivet portion 15. l/Vhen the stud Bis secured to the carrying medium 2 by means ofthe rivet 11, nested embossed annularrings 16 and 17 (Figs. 2 and 7 formed in the bases of the stud and rivet, clench a portion of the carrying me dium between them and dislodge the material from its normal plane. This means of attachment (Fig. 2) is very simple and durable andlateral stresses exerted upon the carryingmedium 2 will not work the material loose from between the bases 12 and 14.

While I have illustrated and described my invention somewhat in detail, I do not wish to be limited thereby because the scope of my invention is best defined in, the following claims.

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1. Aslidablesocketmemberofasnap fastenerhavingaplateportion,abossportionpressed out of the material of said plate portion, said boss portion being open to provide a studreceiving aperture and being divided by a number of slits which terminate in said plate portion a substantial distance from where the boss portion joins the plate portion to divide said boss portion and a portion of said plate portion into a number of yieldable fingers for engagement with a cooperating stud, each of said fingers having its great est yield occurring in the material of the plate portion and in a straight line from the end of one of said slits to the end of another at the junction of the finger and the plate portion thereby providing improved resiliency to said fingers and reducing the ten- PATENT Of -FEE v dency of the fin ers to become set, and strapreceiving slots ocated in said plate portion at opposite sides of said boss portion.

2. A slidable socket member of a snap fas- 5 tener having a late portion, a boss portion pressed out oft e material of said plate portion, said portion being open to provide a stud-recelving aperture and being divided by a number of slits which terminate 1o ih said plate portion a substantial distance from where the boss portion joins the plate portion to divide said boss portion and a portion of said plate portion into a number of yieldable fingers for engagement with a Y cooperatin stud, said fingers having their greatest yield occurring on straight lines throng}: the material between the ends of said S 'ta at the junction of the fingers and the plate ortion thereby providing improved resi 'ency to said fingers and reducmg the tendenc of the fingers to become set, smoothly roun ed neck-engagin jaw means presented at'the free ends of sai fin ers and strap-receiving slots located in said plate portion at o posite sides of said boss portion.

3. A s 'dable socket member of a snap fastoner having a late portion, a boss portion pressed out oft ematerial of said plate portioiwaaid boss portion being open to provide an a stud receivin aperture and being divided by a num r of slits which terminate insaid plate portion a substantial distance from where the boss portion joins the plate portion to divide said boss portion and a porac tion of said plate portion into a number of dable fingers for en agement with a cooperating stud, said ngers having their teat yield occurring on straight lines y ou h the material between the ends of 40 said 'ts at the junction of the fingers and the plate rtion thereb providing imroved resi iency to said ngers and reducthe tendencyof the fingers to become set, inwardly and upwardly bent neck-engaging a portions substantiall parallel with the wall of the boss portion ocated at the free ends of the fingers and strap-receiving slots 10- med in said plate portlon at opposite sides of said boss portion.

00 In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

LOUIS E. GODDU. 

